Word: boosting
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Zotter will provide an additional boost to a team that, before her selection, already included two Norwegian gold medallists, Chinese National Team goaltender Gao Hong and Tiffany Milbrett, the fourth all-time goal-scorer in the history of U.S. Soccer...
...coasts or brakes, the motor becomes a generator, capturing the energy that would normally be lost and transforming it into electricity. In the Insight, a lightweight but superefficient three-cylinder, 63-h.p. gas engine supplies most of the oomph, and the electric motor offers a 10-h.p. boost when needed...
...which have largely abolished preferences in admissions policies--state officials say there are no special plans to lure more men. Many schools still try to balance programs historically dominated by one gender (like engineering and social work) by offering slots to underrepresented students. But that doesn't necessarily boost, say, the number of Hispanic males. And that has led some educators to skirt the recruiting rules. At San Francisco State University, Roberto Haro, a professor of ethnic studies, routinely recruits minority males at Boys Clubs and middle schools in inner-city areas. As a result, he says, "in the past...
Black fraternities are also getting involved. In Maryland the Howard County alumni chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha runs a mentoring program for high school males, helping boost their grades and inspiring them to apply to college. Says program head David Barrett: "So many of our boys are in prison. The ones in school--they're under tremendous pressure from their peers not to excel academically. We want to show them that learning...
High teaches at Providence Elementary School in Fairfax City, Va., which has a lot riding on the success of her efforts. As part of Virginia's high-stakes testing program, schools that don't boost their scores by the year 2007 could lose state funding. So Fairfax City, just 18 miles southwest of the White House, has upgraded its two crumbling elementary schools with new high-tech television studios, computer labs and one very old feature--mandatory Latin...